Just wanted to know if I am not the only one that has a huge problem with the direction this kart racer is going....
problems:
1. Speed, speed, speed.
Why the hell must the entire race consist of almost all drifting?? you are literally drifting for 95% of the race, and each time you switch your drift direction you gain boost meter. Because you gain so much boost, you are also, most of the race able to use a solid boost for a good 80% of the race.
Now even on a huge course, the race is still over in a matter of a handful of seconds which leads me to my second problem:
2. Game is almost entirely pure luck---and I'm not talking mario kart luck----EVEN WORSE.
See with mario kart you actually had to pay attention to which weapons you got, and use them strategically. Also you had time to go around the course, and if you were hit by an item, you almost always had time to come back.
Not in this game.
In Modnation Racers, if you are hit by a rocket/explosion whatever, you can count on finishing in the bottom of the pack because the race seems to be over so damn fast that theres no time to catch up. When you have the fastest lap time in a racing game, and still end up in last place multiple times, theres usually something wrong with the mechanics...
Overall I think the races are way too damn fast, based almost purely on luck, drifting makes it even faster, and takes actually driving out of the game...
What can be done to make this game better?
well, imo of course...I really think they should lower boost rewards for drifting, make the car control during drifting much harder, so it isn't so easy to drift through an entire track, and either lengthen tracks, or make them more laps (not sure if theres already a setting for this). Also lower the speed just a notch, mario kart 64 was waaaaay slower and it didn't take away from the game at all.....you could actually have time to see what weapon you picked up and use it wisely.
one final thing i cant stand is the reset mechanic (select button) ---I like the idea, but why does it take 5 minutes to blow your car up, show a mini-cinematic and then reset your car back like 50 feet???? if you do this you are almost guaranteed a last place finish, just because you got rocketed by someone and flew over the guard rail.....
anyone agree with anything I'm saying?? let me know
